Another brilliant document from Harness, quite simply one of the best things happening right now to me. Collaboration between Luke Tandy (Being, Skeleton Dust) and Shane Church (Hostage Pageant, Amnesia Program), focusing on magnetic collapse and delicate cryptic tension. Decrepit, meticulous electronics leaving a trail of desolate reverberation.

Comes with an extra insert. Edition of 75.

Co-released in conspiracy with the venerable Narcolepsia.

Secular Identity ‎– Holding Hands [c22]

Diseased power electronics about hateful crimes from Jacob Dubois (mastermind behind the excellent Bacteria Field label). Emotionally wounded, unsettling in the cruelest way.

More desolate sanatorium electronics offerings from these two obscure italian acts. Crude haunting dirges dealing with loss and depression and plagued by the omnipresent shadow of death. Meltdown of decaying european industrial, necrotic Slaughter Prod reminiscences and kosmische musik.

Comes with two extra inserts. Edition of 47.

All tapes dubbed in real time.

Some excerpts here

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more will come soon, some won’t

ALSO, limited quantities available of

PHURPA - Gdansk' - 2xCS [C-50 + C-70]

Rituals of Bon. Gdansk, Poland, 07. 06. 2014.

This long awaited double cassette for the russian masters has finally materialized just few months ago after being endlessly postponed due to manic mastering work, multiple duplication delays and more. It was meant to be officially announced with a spring batch that melted into summer but most copies went silently away, almost immediately, to closest friends and associates. Which in a way seemed quite appropriate since its very nature. All remaining ones are now ready to be shipped, so please don’t sleep on this if you’re interested. No repress.

lunedì 24 aprile 2017

Today. Extremely happy to also announce that a new Harness tape titled ''Mass Culture Isolation'' will be out very soon on ANGST, in conspiracy with the venerable Narcolepsia. And that it obviously sounds beautiful.

giovedì 27 ottobre 2016

7 tapes from Sunken Cheek, Kjostad, Concrete Mascara, Krube., Himukalt,Culture of Death and Umgreifende are now available.

Info / orders: angstrec@gmail.com

Thank you.

SUNKEN CHEEK - Without Rejection [c-3o]

Rather prolific year for Sunken Cheek (Ithaca / NY) _ Weston Czerkies [also owner of the Prime Ruin label and involved in a handful of quality collaborations] has been perfecting his misery electronics since 2011 thru several releases (both on tape and wax) and the result is apparently gleaming more than ever.

This work gathers two long compositions of pure harrowing beauty completely drenched in dismal, based on a skillful combination of raw loops, crusty amplified metals, tapes, downhearted synths. Perfectly built tension that will finally collapse in sheer despair. Fierce bitterness replaces empathy.

HIMUKALT - See One Dark Eye [c-4o]

The girl from Nevada is back again. Those who fell in love with her last winter as the debut tape came out won’t be disappointed _ Her fascinating obsessive touch is still there, but this second effort sounds even more oppressive, carnal and focused.

Second document from Rome’s ugly suburbs, eclipsing your positivity once again with two sidelong offerings, roughly one year after their debut tape. Immaterial streams and amplified details in the awe of final perdition.

giovedì 26 maggio 2016

Spring batch is out. 4 new tapes available :

[ANGST_4o] K2 – Food Fascism [C-55]

Japanese noise hero 公秀草深 [Kimihide Kusafuka] is one true master of abrasive audio that any dedicated harshhead will be familiar with. Since the early 80s, he released some genre top-classics (mainly through his own Kinky Music Institute label) collaborating with people such as Incapacitants, MSBR, The New Blockaders, The Haters and countless others. In these new recordings, junk electronics, feedback system and MTR conjure an insalubrious, damaged psychedelic vortex in two acts.

In the red live recording that shows a much cruder side of this pinku-obsessed maniac from southern italy. Heavily neurotic / sexually frustrated crashing blasts inferno, used panties for sale, and japanese screams. Nothing more.

Full force of contemporary US Harsh Noise underbelly, Matthew Reis delivers more perfectly crafted cut-ups with a dark and subtle psych feel in two sick new tracks of anxiety outbursts and druggy removed dreams.

It's not a question. Surreal narrative lunacy. Can you spot the secret observer? Eight very catchy little numbers you'll love to remember. Black tape in standard case with pro-printed j-card.Edition of 7o.

ANGST_38 : Feberdröm – To Fetter Ghosts Of Atrocities [c-4o]

Gothenburg's bad blood at its finest and an old favorite in here since the early efforts on Utmarken and Järtecknet. "To Fetter Ghosts Of Atrocities" continues Feberdröm's long running fixation on death as an unavoidable part of human existence. The majority of the recording was done in the summer of 2015 while working night shift at a nursing home. To some, summer is the season of death, and people were either dying like flies or hovering on the edge of life. Nights were filled with anxiety and slow decline; organs failing, the last breath and postmortem changes. This suffocating environment ultimately became the main inspiration for the release. Crude electronics, rhythms and layers of synthesizers and, for the first time, also vocals. One of Feberdröm's most focused and bleakest works so far. Black tape in standard case, pro-printed j-card and extra xeroxed insert. Edition of 6o.

martedì 19 gennaio 2016

sabato 28 novembre 2015

Two new tapes out today

[ANGST_34] Burial Hex - Assumption / Ascension

For over a decade now, Burial Hex, the eponymous maestro of Horror Electronics, has offered us a confounding glimpse into the dark night of the soul. On this powerful offering, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Clay Ruby and cellist Angela McJunkin gracefully weave through a shocking juxtaposition of kosmische neo-classical and power electronics. In an attempt to depict the mysteries of the Assumption and Ascension, Burial Hex makes a harrowing musical journey that ultimately culminates in a peaceful resolution with a very uncharacteristic piece of monastic folk pastorale.

c-35, black tape. Edition of 73

[ANGST_35] Cassandra - Claustrofobia

Second tape for this rome-based act, following the first effort "E/E" (2o13) and the collective "Aktion#1" tape (2o14) _ alongside autocancrena / Negativeself / A Happy Death. / Irs.

3 hellish new tracks offering a blend of death-concrete/ritual noise of total malevolence.

Wish For Skin is Erik Brown from Massachusetts, that also works as Scald Hymn and Streiber and in Under Nylon [track down also his previous efforts on Unseen Force, Bacteria Field, Summer Isle, and his own Love is the law tape label]. We're happy that this work puts an end to a moment of hiatus of the project, and that Erik crafted for us two awesome long rugged tracks of stripped down, painfully emotive PE. Uneasy haunting moods, chocking screams of despair drenched in muffled / crispy noises. 50 copies on chrome cassettes. Artwork has two different xerox blends, on same hi quality paper (25 of each were made).

mercoledì 22 luglio 2015

The last 4o days or so have been too busy and various live / studio activities dragged us away from home / net and properly announcing the latest analogue breed from ANGST - even if part of it circulated anyway among some contacts, friends, and sodality - so :6 long-desired new tapes are ready to reach you - They took a lot of time to be worked and endlessy refined, but now they're here and just like we wanted them to be.[ANGST_27] N. - Born to die - c5o [ANGST_26] N. - s/t - c45[ANGST_25] Raven - Warganism - c4o[ANGST_24] Shesha De Naga - Jai Mata Kali - c4o[ANGST_22] Francisco Meirino & Dave Phillips - Uglyography - c4o[ANGST_14] Zona Industriale - IZ - c6o

martedì 7 luglio 2015

The first two tapes of the legendary esoteric / ritual italian cult act of the 8os, faithfully reproduced, finally available again _ housed in a black box, strictly limited to 93 handnumbered copies. A good part of them is already reserved : for ordering / details write to

lunedì 1 giugno 2015

lunedì 4 maggio 2015

First part of the spring batch is ready.
Four new tapes are out.

A Happy Death. / To Mankind - Nil. - c5o [ANGST]

Delayed since forever for every sort of trouble - as every proper
damned release demands - the split tape between A Happy Death. and To
Mankind went finally out in the cruelest month.
Both projects
are based in Italy and offer some kind of death industrial noise with
several similarities in feelings / sounds / attitude / hatred. Debut
effort for To Mankind [formerly Cruel Cadaver Exquis, also gtr player in
crust/d-beat band Polis Äckel] and new pollution from A Happy Death. [also involved with Malastrana, Campomorto, Maldoror's Dog, Degrado, etc] following few other tapes shared with Shiver, Negativeself, autocancrena and some collaborations. 3 tracks each, recorded and mixed between 2o13 and 2o14. Ultra-negatively charged filthy electronics. Amp crashes, layers of
various junk and dying synths, tape saturation folding sad atmospheric
landscapes of concrete discontent. Unpleasant views, constant anxiety,
increasing lack of meaning. An intimate examination of the void left
from emotiveness slowly turned into pain and detachment due to cold
brutality of everyday horror. Featuring Mauro S. [Shiver / Deprivation /
Diazepam tapes] providing some more despair with his extra synth in the opening track. Comes in standard j-case with collage inlay + 3 extra cardboard cards. 7o black / hand-scratched c-5o.

No particular introduction needed.
Vomir (fr) and Nascitari (it) are two of the few real masters of hnw . Together with The Rita, Ramirez and very few others, among those still delivering quality releases with personal research / concepts (or no concepts) . Among those that spent years and years of true morbid obsession on sound, leading each one to an unmistakable touch .

On our tape they join forces in two long slabs of total void and bleak crackling slow motion transcendence, for an hour of pure noise bliss.
9o copies